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Posted Wednesday June 19, 2013, About: Yankees suddenly need ... A-Rod
You leave out that teams like Baltimore, Oakland, Pittsburgh and Tampa sucked for so long that they were able to stockpile high draft picks. The Spankees don't have that luxury.
Posted Wednesday June 19, 2013, About: Yankees suddenly need ... A-Rod
Hoffa is under the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City. Everyone knows that.
Posted Wednesday June 19, 2013, About: Yankees suddenly need ... A-Rod
Take away those last 5 years and Carlton's ERA+ was 121 and whip 122. Winning % .594, I'd like to see how that compares with the teams he pitched for.
Posted Wednesday June 19, 2013, About: Yankees suddenly need ... A-Rod
Is that even a debate?
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
What are you basing your opinion on? I'm no fan of Randy Johnson but hard to argue with his numbers, though his AL NL split are dramatic. One stat though that does stick in my mind, that list I referenced earlier where Mussina was 9th all time, Johnson is like 4th or 5th, winning percentage relative to teams he pitcher for, that's a number that I give a lot weight.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
to Carlton? Think you should look again.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
Randy
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
I would think Johnson
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
It might surprise you that Mussina's winning percentage relative to the winning percentage of the teams he pitched for is significantly better than Carlton's though as you point out this could be because it he became a circus act those last 5 years. That said, Mussina is I believe 9th in baseball history when ranked as such for pitchers with more than 175 wins, right behind Seaver.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
I kind of agree, too many were culpable in the "steroid" era, perhaps least of all the players themselves. We'll never know who did and to what degree.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
I see your Carlton obsession matches my Mussina one. We should both seek help.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
I think he won 20 once for the Orioles, maybe even the Cy Young, signed a big contract, then sucked.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
Lex already got it, 71 Orioles, Palmer, McNally, Cuellar and Dobson.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
excellent point, I'm surprised we left that one out.

Great line from Jim Palmer years ago after seeing a ball called "high" said if they called the strike zone then like they call it now I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
don't get me wrong, he's slime, i'm saying if you ignore his ped use.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
nonsense, the only one that might have been able to do it was Syd Finch.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
Well done, ahhh those were good times, ha.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
No, that was long ago, and I'm guessing here, think it was Palmer, Cuellar, McNally and Dobson,

Slink, can you get on that one, ha.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
ahh, just don't like Clemens much, though I must admit, PEDS aside, and that's a big aside, a case could be made Clemens was best pitcher in history. Immediatley throws up.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
ha, I'm just having some fun. I'm enjoying we turned a Kershaw thread into a Mike Mussina one.
Posted Monday June 17, 2013, About: Kershaw wants $225M
Ha, he's a lock. Now that writers are getting their head out of their rearends and looking at numbers with a little more nuance what Mussina accomplished in that division in that era will looked at more intelligently.
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